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From: dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: news -> amiga
Summary: Don't have a modem? Get one.
Message-ID: <155@dms3b1.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 19:13:10 GMT
References: <7880003@hpuamsa.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna)
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In article <7880003@hpuamsa.UUCP> marco@hpuamsa.UUCP (Marco Lesmeister) writes:
>I know this is probably a stupid question, but I'm going to ask it
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There are no stupid questions if you need to know.
>anyhow. I often see some pretty interresting things coming by in
>the amiga binaries and source groups, but I just can't seem to get 
>them on my Amiga. I have no modem in my amiga, and I read news from
                          ^^^^^^^^
>an HP 9000 under UNIX. 
I don't mean to be facetious, but get one.  You can get 1200 baud modems
these days for under a hundred dollars, and if your time is worth anything
at all, you'll spend a lot more than that trying to do it any other way.

Once you have a modem, assuming you have modem access available on your
UNIX machine, there are a number of public domain or shareware terminal
emulators that can do Xmodem or Kermit file transfers.  Or you can get
the AmigaUUCP software from Dan Schein/Bill Loftus (E-mail to
...!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers) and transfer it via uucp.
>How the hell can I get these (sometimes) wunderfull programs on my
>amiga?
>I can write to 3.5 inch drives, so that should be no problem, but
>what format should I use?
The chances of being able to write the Amiga format are about zero.
It uses both a non-standard raw data format and a non-standard file
structure.  If you really have to do it that way, you might be able
to write it in IBM PS/2 format and use one of the PC file transfer
routines (Dos2Dos?).

If you really have to do it without a modem, you could physically
bring the Amiga to where your UNIX machine is, hook up it's serial
port (probably via a NULL modem) to the machine, and use one of the
terminal emulators to use the Amiga as a terminal to UNIX.  Then
download the files as though you had a modem.

If you wait awhile, most of the interesting stuff usually ends up
on Fish disks, which you can get directly from Fred Fish for $6 
dollars each.  Fred usually posts a listing of what's on each
one when he gets a new batch ready, and John Kjellerman (kjohn)
recently posted a complete list together with some other public
domain collections.
>Please help, because I see all these nice programs pass by, and I
>just can't touch them.
Hope this helps.
>
>Marco Lesmeister.
     Dave Hanna

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